alliterative poetry
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May 30th, 2023
- I've been realizing that I access a totally different kind of poetry when I channel my old english roots and emphasize alliteration rather than rhyme
- it forces focus on the feel of every word
- it's more subtle, more supple, more susceptible to slowly slipping and sliding into sensuality
- where rhyme restricts, rerouting reason towards readymade ratholes
- alliteration is additive, allowing adolescent appearances into adulthood
- constraints can cause condemnation to clichés and cached connections
- wrote Hank Green, "for years I always went through life, as a guy who always had to rhyme life with strife"
- life literally lets little limbs long and lust for evolutionary expansive emanance
- yet "life", last in a line, licks losers with its lack of lingual lyric-likes
- alliteration as alcohol and acid, dissolving dead dull diction into delightful devastation
- rhyme as ritalin and rice, wasting whatever words want to occupy the width of your creation
- or perhaps, playfully, a poet pleases the palette pairwise